Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-07

window. just heaven! Is IT not plbiiui
that men and women and Gods little In
noceuts should be herded as we see them
here? For mile alter mile the nigh Wails
of these human hives rise on every hsno, |
far across town, far up snd down. Eacn |
wall is foil of windows that serve us as |
million eyes with which TO view the LIE !
indoors. In each house is seen the same
packing of humanity-beds IN the
parlors, sometimes four or i've peds
in one room; bedrooms filed with men
and women hard at work, making
cigars or clothing; homes snd workshops
all in one. Here are fathers and girls 81
their toilet together; mothers and uncles
and brothers and sisters living IN e mud
die. Everywhere people are hanging OUT
of the windows for air or Tor cnsnge.
The streets are full of children, too
young TO work and too numerous 10 nno
room indoors. Few of these go to Sun
day school or work in stores or factories.
How do they find their mates? Where
do they do their counting!
The answer is most curious. They
cannot court in the houses. There is
neither room nor privscy there. They
are therefore forced cut of doors and do
their wooing on the sidewalk, In the
doorwsys, on the roofs, on the wharyes
at the foot of each street, in the picnic
| ground and in the public parks. Most
respectable New Workers who live in Com
Portable houses have theory that society
: In these quarters is demoralized and
wicked, They hear so much Of the harm
done at picnics, of the girls who are
ruined so early in the tenements that
thew mny be said to be born ruined, and
of the startling sight witnessable in the
parks where these people go to rest
and to make love. But those who have
studied the subjcct know that it
will not do to condemn all for the
faults of the few. Many maiden who
permits her blues irted lover to stesl an
arm around her in the parks is as honest
as the sunlight, many nice lotteries and
societies go to the picnic grounds and
their mem oers behave as ladies' snd gen.
|tlemen, many Of the couples we see whirl-
lag in the merry WAl'z on the WhsrVes, to
the music of a outh organ played by a
boy, are honestly engsged for honest mar
lriage. The tenement school Is bsd
End wicked one. Us graduates are the
"gapgs,n the petty thieves, the l0&fe7s
and tramps, end it fills the streets Wi&b
daughters IF shame, but anyone WHO
knows the facts will assure you that ters
J Of thousands Of brave girls and nobis
men graduate from that school true ana
respectable citizens; and good husbands
and wives, even Il they DID court one
another on a roof Or in Tompkin's Square
II you walked along the lower end arls
tocratic end of Second avenue after night
, fall, or on upper Eighth avenue where the
little shops are, or down the 0rst block!
; eff Broadway when al the great shipping
} and express offices are closed, and should
see the hundreds Of girls that parade
there, giggling and flirting, all dressed il
their best and as win as peacocks, you
would not be blamed for thinking then
either on the wrong road or rapidly ap
? preaching it. But you would wrong tn
girls nightly. They are obeyinglthe IN
. written law OF nature. These ar;
, the principal filtration promenade:
I, the lovers lanes o. the city-and TIT
} girls and boys 20 there to meet one az
! other. They cannot do like other girls
| T0ey have no parlors except the park
/ and streets. Nineteen in twenty OF th'
{ girls are hard-workiDg, thrifty, self-re
Y speeding little bodies who, whether the.
? realize it or not, are thus seeking thsi
/ mates Let any man approach then
other than honestly AID see what he vii
get from them. The hind Of woneI
= suC1 a man seeks do not frequent thes
e walks.
r Among the Jews oil this is different
1 Nd matter how poor or how crowded ar
{ their houses, the Jewish maidens re
O ceive their lovers indoors. They are dis
:, cip!ined in this regard as strictly IS tn
s daughters IN midale-class life in Ne'
Y York, and that IS the strictest school TO
q Young girls in the whole world, outsid
d of France and England. Among middle
s class Christians, and every class OF Jews
J. 8 glrl's company" must be known t
it her parents and very often must be enter
e tanned ia the presence OF the family
: The Jews are iDtermhrryiDg with Chris
tians more and more, and it reslly look
n to day IS If America will see the breskin
( down OF the historic barrier between th
= races. But the work Is proceeding sleWl'
e Among the poor and peddiing class {
}, Hebrews girl is disoWned II she Wed5
Z Christian. Among the Well-tO-GO Jew
y uptown such marriages ere SO s&rongl
n discouraged that nearly every one baV
known Of in my circle OF acquaintance
4 hiss been stealJbily performed, if not b
IS actual elopement. However. the parent
n take the girl back sooner or later, whiC
e is more than the grandparents Wou'
3, have done in such cases. IG one Cas-
I that Know of the self-Willed dsRghte
r who ran off with young Count W;
o mourned es dead and O lamp WAS kel
u lighted for a year by her father, after ii
Is Jewish custom in cases Of death, b
q after that the fond mother patched I
It a peace between the father aud daugnte
II and all are reunited now.
l. JULIAN RALPH.
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E. A Child Burned to Death.